Sharing my experiencies

as a Manager
Embassy Long Beach
Business communication
Teacher: Donna Andert
May 2014
Sooner o Later all of us may play as a
manager (Boss role)
• My Little story in short.
• When I began to work as a manager
• Taking the opportunities and cost of certain decisions
• Why I choose to be a manager
• I had a dream to be a manager
• I wanted to learn how to LEAD other people
• I wanted to inspire other people
• I wanted to set up objetives
• I wante to lead my own team to get these objetives

• Be the manager has good and bad things.

• You earn more money than others….. but
• I have more responsabilities and therefore more problemas
IT Department Chief Executive Officer

Organizational Chart
(CEO)
Carlos Mario Giraldo

Customer
Internal Audit Chief Legal Officer
Management
Gladys Estrada Carlos Henao
Marcela Quintero

Merchandise & Supply Financial & Development & Real

Éxito Brand VP Retail VP Marketing VP Human ResourcesVP
Chain VP Administration VP State VP
Jacky Yanovich Carlos M. Diez Martin Nova Juan Felipe Montoya
Jose Loaiza Filipe Da Silva Juan Lucas Vega

IT & Logistics
Jesús Quintero

CIO IT Manager
José J. Saldarriaga

IT Security & IT Financial PMO Office

Claudia de los Rios
continuity Analyst Tat iana Cataño
Felipe Ruiz Diana Monsalve Claudia Muñoz

Infrastructure &
HR & Financial Administrative Business e-commerce & Textile Sln.
Supply Chain Sln. Point of Sales Sln. Hermes Operation
Sln. Systems Sln. Intelligence Sln. multichannel Sln. Didetexco
Clara Montoya Boris Ceballos Felipe Ramirez Manager
Vanesa Torres Carlos Monsalve Amparo Suárez Jorge Arango Silvio Giraldo
Luis Ángel

Users Assistance
Users Assistance Users Assistance IT
Barranquilla Production
Bogotá Medellín | Cali Infrastructure
Marcos Luisa Garzón
Hector Rosales Beatriz Arango Alvaro S. Lopera
Echavarría
My main duties
• Strategic visión:
• means have full understanding of company goals and therefore find out how to use information technology
innovations to contribute to get those goals
• Human Capital managemet:
• Means built and keep on the best team posible. It doesn´t mean all members are the best, means everyone knows
absolutely well his/her role and his/her role, deliveries and how & when to help others when they need it. Also means
everyone works for the group objetives and benefict.We are a knowledge base área (remember IT change a lot), then
our knowledge need to managed to keep it up to date
• Financial Management:
• Money is a key resource as well. We must to take care of our Budget, then we need to be very Smart to optimize our
investments and our expenses.
• Project Management:
• Projects we do enable business progress. Our company is vey big, then it is impossible to do anything without
technology. Projects we do deliver high value to our company.
• Managing conflicts
• For do this, it is key: listening very carefully, specially facts instead of feelings. In case of doubt put always customer
first. Make decisión based on company goals, budget and people you have and finally…. take risks if it is necessary
My main duties (cont.)
• Financial Management:
• Money is a key resource as well. We must to take care of our Budget, then we
need to be very Smart to optimize our investments and our expenses.
• Project Management:
• Projects we do enable business progress. Our company is vey big, then it is
impossible to do anything without technology. Projects we do deliver high
value to our company.
• Managing conflicts
• For do this it is key: listening carefully, specially facts instead of feelings. In
case of doubt put always customer first. Make decisión based on company
goals, budget and people you have and finally…. take risks if it is necessary